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To: carranza2 who wrote (129475)6/2/2003 5:24:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
Gidday C2. What do you mean unwittingly? As engineer and I [and others] have been ranting for years, the pipeline is the killer app. The useless service providers are trying to ring-fence subscribers to make them buy selected "apps". As you say, all we want is a wide-open low-cost, high-speed pipeline into our brains.

Of course, cyberspace is now so fast and powerful that we don't need it too fast. The limit we will soon be up against is our brain capacity. Our brains are simply too pathetic to do much more than enjoy a trickle of data. If all of cyberspace was delivered it would be like drinking from a firehose. We can only handle a sip. But our sips are in the gigabyte range, not kilobyte or megabyte.

We don't need a pipeline to handle the Niagara Falls. Just a handy drinking fountain would be nice. But we'll want it anywhere. And without some bandit charging a fortune for it either. Pipelines aren't very expensive.

Multimode devices will make more available cheaper, and that will drive demand for CDMA. The WiFi crowd seem to think WiFi is a CDMA killer. Wacko crazies. We need both and having paid a good price for our device, we might as well pay a bit more to get hold of a WiFi [or CDMA] reader in it too so we can use it all over the place. Not to mention GPRS, WCDMA etc.

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